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So I shall be going to war, the Great Mushroom War!”
:Oh no no no no no no! The shrooms will not march to war,
:So I'll I’ll stomp the '''Stumpers''' down and dice all the rest!</poem>
| oryg = <poem>Ką kalbėjo zuikuželis po šilelį bėgiodamas?
„Eikit grybai vainą! Grybužėlei vaina!“
{{ Cytat
| <poem>When a branch quivers, brushed,
And part the ash tree's tree’s clusters, and into view flash
A pair of cheeks than berries more crimson and fair;
They are the maid's maid’s who gathers such nuts and fruit there
Into a simple basket, and in which she carries
The cowberries; her lips sparkling as red as the berries;
In this hierarchy of forest activities, mushroom picking was somewhere near the middle. Berry shrubs grow in vast patches, each identical to the next; a good mushroom, on the other hand, is hard to find and no two fungi are the same. So while regular gathering is a tedious, back-breaking chore, mushroom picking can be seen as a challenging or even competitive pastime. There's a reason why it's often called mushroom ''hunting''. Fungi may lack claws or fangs, but the risk of poisoning adds a certain dose of excitement.
Just like recreational mushroom hunters today have to share the forest with professionals, so was mushroom picking in times of yore practised both by peasants -- – for whom it was a way to supplement their meagre diet -- – and by the nobility, who saw it as a more democratic alternative to big-game hunting. Note how, in Soplicowo, only the nobles engaged in the mushroom hunt, yet the party was still more inclusive (from the Chamberlain's little daughter to the old Tribune) than [[Epic Cooking: The Wondrous Taste of Bigos|at the bear hunt]], which was a men-only affair.
Mushrooms are often considered one of the few foodstuffs used in Old Polish cuisine which crossed class boundaries and could be found on both peasant and lordly tables.
{{ Cytat
| The yokel's yokel’s fare has always consisted of {{...}} sundry mushrooms, such as brittlegills, {{...}} tacked, fleecy and woolly milk caps, chanterelles, sooty heads, milk whites, stumpers, yellow knights, scaber stalks, butterballs; and in this abundance mistaking the poisonous ones for the good, he often pays with his health or even life.
| oryg = Pożywieniem kmiotka były i są dotychczas {{...}} grzyby czyli bedłki rozliczne, jako to: syrojeszki, {{...}} chrząstki, świniarki, pieprzniki, gołąbki {{...}}, gąski, jelonki, kutmanki, opieńki, zielonki, mleczaje, babki, pożarki, maśluki; a w tej obfitości myląc się i biorąc jadowite za dobre, zdrowiem częstokroć przypłacają, albo i życiem.
| źródło = Ł. Gołębiowski, ''op. cit.'', s. 31–32, own translation
Yet are not without use, for to beasts they are food,
To the insects a nest, and add charm to the wood.
On the meadow's meadow’s green cloth they arise in ranks prim
Like a neat table setting; with smooth rounded rim,
'''Brittlegills, silver, yellow and red''', stand in line:
Perfect row of small goblets with various filled wine;
The <b>'''foxy</b>'s ''’s upturned tumbler, round-bottomed and plain;
'''Horn of plenty''', a slim flute designed for champagne,
'''Milk caps''', rotund and white, broad and flat, smooth as silk:
Yet are not without use, for to beasts they are food,
To the insects a nest, and add charm to the wood.
On the meadow's meadow’s green cloth they arise in ranks prim
Like a neat table setting; with smooth rounded rim,
'''Brittlegills, silver, yellow and red''', stand in line:
Perfect row of small goblets with various filled wine;
The <b>'''foxy</b>'s ''’s upturned tumbler, round-bottomed and plain;
'''Horn of plenty''', a slim flute designed for champagne,
'''Milk caps''', rotund and white, broad and flat, smooth as silk:
{{ Cytat
| <poem>None those hares' hares’ or wolves' wolves’ mushrooms to gather would deign,
He who stoops such to pick, when his error is plain,
Will, angry, with his foot break it off or demolish;